(p. 790) bēhāna (fem. of বেহাই) the mother-in-law or an aunt-in-law of a son or daughter. 11)

(p. 721) bān̐dara the monkey; the ape; (dero.) a mischievous person. fem. বাঁদরি । ̃মুখো a. having a face as ugly as that of a monkey. fem. বাঁদরমুখি । বাঁদরামি, বাঁদরামো n. mischievousness; a monkey-trick; monkeyism. বাঁদুরে a. monkeyish. 269)

(p. 756) biḍ়ā a coil of straw or cloth used as a pedestal for placing cooking-urns, pitchers etc. and also for wearing as a headgear; (of beetle-leaves etc.) a small roll, a bundle. 25)

(p. 721) bān̐di maidservant, a handmaid; a woman slave. 272)

(p. 715) baktṛtā a speech, a lecture; a prattling; cloquence; (facet.) a rigmarole. বক্তৃতা করা, বক্তৃতা দেওয়া v. to deliver a speech. to speak. to lecture; to prattle; to indulge in a rigmarole. বক্তৃতা থামাও, বক্তৃতা রাখো stop talking, stop your harangue or garrulity. ̃শক্তি n. speaking power. 3)

(p. 785) bēñca, bēñci a bench, a form. 15)

(p. 721) bāṃlā2, bāṃlō a bungalow. 252)

(p. 715) baḍisa a bodice; bra.

(p. 740) bāta1 word, speech (লম্বা বাত); news, information ('পুছে বাত'). 15)

(p. 713) bakabaka denoting: intolerable prattling or chattering; overmuch talking. বকবক করা v. to prattle or chatter disgustingly; to talk overmuch. 27)

(p. 715) bacana speech; utterance; a saying, an adage, an apophthegm, a maxim; (gr.) number (একবচন = the singular number; দ্বিবচন = the dual number; বহুবচন = the plural number). ̃বাগীশ a. having the gift of the gab; eloquent, very talkative. ̃বিন্যাস n. art or mode of speaking; eloquence; arrangement of words or speech. বচনসর্বস্ব ব্যাক্তি a person of mere words, a wind-bag. বচনীয় a. speakable; blamable. 25)

(p. 790) bēhāi the father-in-law or an uncle-in-law of a son or daughter. 8)

(p. 721) bān̐ka curvature; a curve; a bend, a turn (as of a road or river); a piece of long and bent pole borne on one's shoulder for carrying loads fastened to its ends. ̃নল n. a blowpipe; a u-tube; (bot.) a bent tube. ̃মল n. a kind of twisted bangle for the ankle. 257)

(p. 721) bām̐ẏā a small semi-circular musical instrument of percussion played along with the tabla (তবলা). ঢাকের বাঁয়া (fig. & derisively) a useless accompaniment, a mere nothing; someone else's ditto. 277)

(p. 786) bēmānāna unfitting; unbecoming; irrelevant; inappropriate; ill-matched; incompatible; awkward. 73)